Kohlberg's stages of moral development

Cognitive development is all about the way a person thinks. According to these theorists, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, David Elkind, and Benjamin Bloom, there are many different ways of thinking. Jean Piaget believed development occurred in four different stages of thinking. He considers the stages to be universal as the individual develops throughout their environments. The first stage sensorimotor focused on birth until 2 years old is basically the motor skills along with sensory organs…

of Intelligence 2 Practical intelligence 2 Creative intelligence 2 Analytical intelligence: 2 Strengths and limitations of his theory in the local context 2 Strengths 2 Limitations 3 Implications of this theory for nurturing children’s cognitive development in Hong Kong. 5 Conclusion 5 Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of Intelligence IQ tests measures only a person’s analytical intelligence such as glossary, knowledge and memory. However, Dr. Robert Sternberg believed that people possess 3…

and work towards elimination of child labour. But this unit needs to be strengthened with financial and human resources and be more pro-active. According to the International Labour Organisation, child labour is harmful to the physical and mental development of children as it deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their…

Dr. Dan Gartrell Reflection Paper Dr. Dan Gartrell is a modern day child development theorist who has studied in depth behavior tendencies in children ages 0-8, and has developed behavior guidance methods which support developmentally appropriate practices. Dr. Gartrell is also the author of four books and countless articles. One of his articles caught my eye and left me filled with more knowledge and a new technique that will help me and other caregivers in the future. The article focused on…

discover how children think about the world in different stages of development and how the changes in their thinking occur. Piaget believed that children created an understanding of the world by schemes. Schemes are actions or mental…

This essay discusses the four grand theories of development. A theory is an attempt to organise a lot of different facts and give an overall explanation of something. The four Grand Theories of child development is Behaviourism, Social learning theory, Piaget’s cognitive-developmental theory and Vygotsky’s social-cognitive theory. It is important to examine these theories because it has a huge influence on how we think about children, how we interact with children and the way we view children.…

As humans we go through different stages of development throughout our lives, we grow a little bit older each day from birth to old age. Our cognition matures as we begin to use concepts regularly. When exposed to the same information a child and an adult will come to different conclusions because they both perceive the information differently. According to Piaget, in assimilation no changes are made to the existing schema when adding the new instance. For example, a child knows birds have wings…

they view cognitive development in children, both of them offer good proposals on how to teach certain material in a developmentally appropriate manner and in a fitting way. Piaget 's theory focuses on intelligence and how it changes as children grow up. While, Vygotsky 's theory centers on the social action and he defines intelligence as the capacity to learn from teaching. Piaget believed that children actively try to make sense…

This is the stage where he is experimenting with the world around him. Teddy is also just coming out of the Intentional Behaviors sub-stage. This is where Teddy uses cause and effect. Early in the semester Teddy would behave with a goal in mind. On 9/23 it was observed that Teddy would play with and pull on the decoration on…

understanding of the development of children, how they think and learn; as well as how children assimilate things they know with new objects or situation, or accommodate new situation until there…